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H. W. HAYDEN.

Improvement in Sleigh-Bells.

N0. 130,995 Patented Sep.3,1872.

UNITED STATES HIRAM W. HAYDEN, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO HOLMES, BOOTH & HAYDENS, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SLElGH-BELLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 136,995, dated September 3,1872;

Specification of an Improvement in Sleigh Bells, invented by HIRAM W. HAYDEN, of Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut.

Sleigh-bells have been made of two hemispherical shells closed together, and to one of said shells a sheet-metal loop has been attached.

My invention is made for avoiding the central seam or joint in sheet-metal sleigh-bells, thereby rendering the bell stronger and more ornamental. I make the entire bell out of one piece of sheet metal, stamped up indies or spun to the desired ornamental shape, with a circular opening at one end, into which the grooved edge of the attaching base is inserted, and then the edges of the sheet metal of the bell are pressed down into this groove so as to be closed around such base and firmly hold it. In this manner the wrought-brass or sheetmetal sleigh-bell can be made very cheap, and the article produced is of superior quality.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a section of the bell-blank ready for the reception of the attaching button or base, shown in Fig. 2. Fig.

3 is a detached view of the sheet-metal base partially formed and the attaching-strips proiecting from the base; and Fig. 4 is a section of the bell complete.

The bell is made from a circular blank of sheet metal, spun, stamped, or otherwise drawn up to shape, such as shown in Fig. 1, the same resembling an acorn or other ornamental form. An opening is made at b in the bell a of the proper size for receiving the base or button 0 that is formed with a groove around its edge, as represented in Fig. 2, in order that the sheet metal of the bell may be pressed after the base 0 has been inserted in the opening I), and thereby the metal closed firmly around the said base to hold the same, as represented in Fig.

4. Thebase 0 may have mortises for the incan be made of any desired shape, and free from the objectionable seam usually surround ing the center of the sheet-metal bells heretofore made.

I claim as my invention-- 1. The sheet-metal sleigh-bell, contracted at the rear end to an opening of less diameter than the bell, in combination with the base 0, grooved around the edge, and secured by pressing the edges of the bell into the same, substantially as set forth.

2. The base for a sleigh-bell, and projectin gstrips 6 e struck up froma single piece ofsheet metal, substantially as set forth.

Signed by me this 11th day of July, A. D. 1872.

H. W. HAYDEN.

Witnesses:

CHARLES R. BALDWIN, A. S. CHASE. 

